always

A1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #180 ★★★★★

adv. 总是, 始终

发音

UK /ˈɔːl.weɪz/
US /ˈɑl.weɪz/
UK /ˈɔː.weɪz/
UK /ˈɔːl.wɪz/
其它 /ˈaː.wɪz/
其它 /ˈɔləs/
CA /ˈɔː(ɫ)we(ɪ)z/
CA /-wɪz/
CA /-wɛs/

别名

alwayes alwayz alwayez allus allers alluz allways alwaies alway alwuz awluz

教材释义与例句

副词

永远，一直；总是；常常

all the time, at all times, or every time

Always lock your bicycle to something secure.

每次都要把自行车锁在牢固的物体上。

She'd always assumed that Gabriel was a girl's name.

她一直认为加布里埃尔是个女孩名字。

He hadn't always been a butler.

他并不是一直当管家。

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.
    非正式
adv. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    At all times; throughout all time; since the beginning.

    总是

    成日

    God is always the same.

    Green has always been my favorite color. I’ve loved it for as long as I can remember.

    Airplanes did not always exist as a form of transportation.

  2. 2.

    Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally).

    In this street, the shops always close during lunchtime.

  3. 3.

    if necessary, or if there is no better option; in any event.

    非正式

    I thought I could always go back to work.

词汇关系

副词

同义词 7

ever forever constantly invariably incessantly perpetually e'er

相关短语

always a bridesmaid, never a bride always the bridesmaid, never the bride always already always was, always will be the grass is always greener on the other side 这山望着那山高 the grass is always greener the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence a bad workman always blames his tools 拉不出屎来赖茅坑 the shoemaker's son always goes barefoot there's always a bigger fish a bad penny always turns up a bad penny always comes back the bad penny always comes back the bad penny always turns up trust everybody, but always cut the cards

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-West Germanic *all Old English eall Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *wegaz Proto-West Germanic *weg Old English weġ Old English ealneġ Middle English alwey Proto-Germanic *-as Proto-West Germanic *-as Old English -es Middle English -es Middle English alweyes English always From Middle English alweyes, alwayes, alweys, a variant of Middle English alwey, alway (“always”), from Old English ealneġ, ealne weġ (“always, perpetually”, literally “all the way, all the while, continuously”), from ealne + weġ (accusative case), equivalent to alway + -s. Cognate with Scots always (“always”), Low German allerwegens (“very often”, literally “all ways'”). More at all, way.

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